Article by David Istrate – published on Thursday, May 22, 2025, 22:04 / Updated Thursday, May 22, 2025 22:05
Bernadette Szocs (30 years old) and Ovidiu Ionescu (35 years were eliminated from the World Table Tennis Championships. Szocs left the simple “optimal” sample, while Ionescu was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the male double.
On the morning of May 22, Romanian table tennis players were also engaged in 3 tests in the World Table Tennis Championships. Later, both Bernadette Szocs and Ovidiu Ionescu received defeats that meant elimination from the competition.
Bernadette Szocs, eliminated from the simple competition, play on Friday to double
At noon, Bernadette Szocs was dueling with Chinese Manyu Wang (26) in Doha. Asian has dominated confrontation with 30 -year -old athlete and imposed with 4-0 (11-6, 12-10, 11-5, 11-6).
As a result, Wang has qualified in the quarterfinals of the World Championships, where Miwa Harimoto (16 years old) will give Japanese. The young player lost only 4 sets in the 4 disputed games, succeeding 2 victories with 4-0.
Szocs will not leave Doha because she is still engaged in the women's double competition, where she is pair with Sofia Polcanova. The two qualified in “quarters” and are about to play on Friday, May 23, against the Germans Sabine Winter and Yuan Wan.
Also on the same day, Adina Diaconu and Maria Xiao will take place with the Chinese Manyu Wang and Man Kuai for a place in the semifinals of the World Championships.
Ovidiu Ionescu and Alvaro Robles, defeat in five sets in the “quarters” of the double test
During the evening, at the table arrived Ovidiu Ionescu and Alvaro Robleshis double partner. The two faced, in the “quarters”, with the French Florian Bourrassaud and Esteban Dorr.
The Romanian-Spanish pair won the first set with 11-8, but the French took their revenge in the second set: 7-11. There followed a set controlled by Ionescu and Robles (11-4) and then one in which Bourrasaud and Dorr played very well, resisting an attempt to return the opponents (11-13).
The decisive set was also won by the French (6-11) who thus obtained the qualification in the semifinals. In the penultimate act of World Championships, Bourrassaud and Dorr will play either with Egypt El-Beial and Youssef Abdelaziz, or Japanese Hiroto Shinozuka and Shushuke Togami.
